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Inside: The sex industry isn't technophilic; Schroedinger's streaming service just died; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/06/21/ear…

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Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

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The sex industry isn't technophilic: Why sex workers are the first in - and first out - of new technologies.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1539266220783976448

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Schroedinger's streaming service just died: When is a "sale" a "license?"

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1539304447607812098

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Hey look at this

* @Bobosphere's final broadcast bullypulpit.substack.com/p/off-the-air#…

* Platformer Toolkit, an interactive essay gmtk.itch.io/platformer-too… (h/t @waxy)

* The Hatbox Ghost that Never Was …gforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-ha… 5/

#20yrsago #Perl is Internet #Yiddish web.archive.org/web/2002062116…

#20yrsago The invention of #Warchalking web.archive.org/web/2002102004…

#20yrsago Punk sounds for babies punkrockbaby.com

#15yrsago Email gets fourth amendment protection again web.archive.org/web/2007081301… 6/

#15yrsago #GoldFarming makes the NYT nytimes.com/2007/06/17/mag…

#15yrsago Fix the FCC or die web.archive.org/web/2007070320…

#15yrsago North American Broadcasters Association knifes NPR and PBS at the United Nations anti-podcasting treaty negotiation web.archive.org/web/2007062603… 7/

#10yrsago DMZ is finished: @brianwood nailed the ending memex.craphound.com/2012/06/21/dmz…

#10yrsago G4S boss predicts mass privatisation of UK police forces theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/20…

#10yrsago @paolobacigalupi: cyberpunk saved sf web.archive.org/web/2014122512… 8/

#10yrsago Drugs Without the Hot Air: the most sensible book about drugs you’ll read this year memex.craphound.com/2012/06/20/dru…

#10yrsago Fanfic inspired by the apocalyptic state of a ten-year-old Civilization II game reddit.com/r/gaming/comme… 9/

#10yrsago How stupid is Charles Carreon’s lawsuit against The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation? Really, really stupid popehat.com/2012/06/19/the… 10/

#10yrsago Oatmeal to Charles Carreon: calm down before you get yourself into trouble theoatmeal.com/blog/carreon

#10yrsago @aaronsw reviews Twilight of the Elites, an indictment of meritocracy crookedtimber.org/2012/06/18/gue… 11/

#10yrsago Young man with autism sees off the Snow White ride at Walt Disney World shmoolok.com/Blog/Post/339/… 12/

#10yrsago FunnyJunk’s lawyer sues American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federationhttps://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/

#10yrsago Falsehoods programmers believe about time infiniteundo.com/post/253269996… 13/

#5yrsago A right-wing Dem Senator who voted to sell weapons to Saudi is being primaried by an environmental activist theintercept.com/2017/06/19/joe…

#5yrsago New media noncompetes are destroying the careers of young journalists cjr.org/business_of_ne… 14/

#5yrsago Every year, @Starbucks sends 4 billion nonrecyclable paper cups to landfills treehugger.com/starbucks-cups…

#5yrsago Truck-driving is a modern form of indentured slavery usatoday.com/pages/interact…

#5yrsago Canon #Jesus was way better than fandom Jesus web.archive.org/web/2017042307… 15/

#5yrsago Israeli company’s spyware used to target corruption-fighting journalists and lawyers in Mexico citizenlab.ca/2017/06/reckle…

#5yrsago @sxsw condemns Texas’s state-level law banning “sanctuary cities” like Austin rollingstone.com/music/music-ne… 16/

#5yrsago My Favorite Thing is Monsters: a haunting diary of a young girl as a dazzling graphic novel memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/my-…

#5yrsago The Big Bad Fox: hilarious tale of predators, parenting, and poultry memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/the… 17/

#1yrago How to cheat on your taxes: The rich are different from you and me pluralistic.net/2021/06/20/la-…

#1yrago The doctrine of dynastic wealth: @abigaildisney on tax evasion and the American caste system pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 18/

#1yrago The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups" pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 19/

Friday's threads: Facebook's right, Apple is too powerful; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1537806480807804928

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 22/

My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances:

* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 24
hope.net 24/

Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event…

* Privacy is the New Celebrity
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @mcrockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 26/

If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest column is "Reasonable Agreements: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts"

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